chart of receipts over time per user

[chadwhitacre]

@eric-s-raymond intends to shoot the moon on Gittip (cf. #95), and as part of the experiment he'd like to have a chart showing his receipts over time.

[chadwhitacre]

IRC

[zbynekwinkler]

You mean like sum of amounts from transfers table per week and receiver? And putting that somewhere on the profile page? Or were you thinking about doing something with tips table? Or?

[tshepang]

My guess is it's something that would live on user profile pages.

[mvdkleijn]

I assume this would be a private chart, not a public one? Otherwise people could see how much someone was receiving, possibly even from whom, and the ’no strings attached’ philosophy would be endangered.

"hey, if you're getting X amount, why aren't you working more / on my feature?"

[tshepang]

@mvdkleijn why would you deduce that the givers would be exposed by this? Anyways, I don't see why this should be private.

[mvdkleijn]

@tshepang If a receiver has just 2 or 3 donors, the public list of receipts over time could potentially be calculated back to the amounts per donor. Anyway, it was just a thought.

I just realized we're already exposing the weekly amount someone receives, so this wouldn't hurt I guess.

[tshepang]

@mvdkleijn I don't get it. How would receipts expose who gives what? Won't that be (wild) guesswork?

[chadwhitacre]

This, in combination with #1127 (compute "receiving" more accurately), would help team members better determine what their take should be.

[chadwhitacre]

+1-ish from @ericholscher in IRC (he actually asked for an API to make his own).

[chadwhitacre]

What is wanted here is the Weekly Gifts chart, scoped to a single user:

[chadwhitacre]

I guess this goes on the profile page near the existing histograms we show the user.

[chadwhitacre]

That's on templates/profile-edit.html.

[chadwhitacre]

Done in #1667 and #1694 and released in 10.1.43 and deployed (Twitter).